MAVELIKKARA: Ajas (33), the traffic police constable who was under treatment for burns he sustained while setting ablaze policewoman Soumya Pushkaran, died a few hours ago. He had sustained 40 percent burns.
He has been under treatment at the government medical college hospital in Alappuzha.
On Tuesday, the doctors said that the functions of his kidney and lungs were not normal. The doctors had started dialysis then. With 60 percent burns, he had been in the isolation ward of the Medical College hospital.
Meanwhile, Soumya’s cremation will take place on the premises of her house on Thursday after 10 am. The body, currently kept at a private hospital in Ochira, will be kept at Vallikunnam police station for public viewing at 9 am. After that, the body will be taken in a mourning procession led by Student Police Cadets to her house at Ooppenthara.
The other day Ajas was also placed under suspension.
Soumya Pushpakaran was a Civil Police Officer (COP) at Vallikkunnam station in Mavelikkara. According to police, Ajas, who was attached to the Aluva traffic station, allegedly followed the woman in a car when she was on her way back home after work in the evening.
He knocked her two-wheeler down and allegedly hacked her with a sharp weapon and as she tried to seek refuge at a nearby house. He chased her, poured petrol over her and set her ablaze.
She died on the spot while the policeman was taken into custody. A native of Vallikkunnam here, Soumya was staying with her three children. His husband is abroad.
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